Research Project (MAST90046) // Assessment

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The assessment requirements below are applicable to the entire 50 point Research Project.

• A preliminary literature survey and research plan (of 2 pages) is due at the end of week eight of the first research project enrolment semester (hurdle; pass/fail ).
• A thesis (90% of assessment) is the main requirement due after the full 50 points of enrolment in the research project component, Theses are expected to be 60-80 pages in length, excluding references, appendices, figures and tables. Two bound hard copies of the thesis are to be submitted two weeks prior to the end of the teaching period in the final semester of Research project enrolment;
• students will have to give 30 minute presentations (10% of assessment) on their research projects in the last week of that teaching period, on a date to be announced by the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at the beginning of semester.